Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Thermal
Ford
Long Beach, CA · Posted October 12, 2026
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About the job
Thermal systems span a diverse range of critical customer-facing attributes, hardware, and software domains. For example, our work keeps occupants comfortable, enables full vehicle powertrain capabili